Nuclear batteries harness energy from radioactive decay, converting it into electricity. These devices are ideal for long-term, maintenance-free power generation in extreme environments. They support ...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A ...

At DOE’s newest user facility, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at Michigan State University, Allmond manages the ongoing FRIB Decay Station initiator project. He is particularly ...

ENSDF is a database that contains evaluated nuclear structure and decay information for over 3,000 nuclides. An international network of evaluators regularly contributes to the database, which is ...

beta-plus decay does the reverse and turns protons into neutrons. To understand what this, and the weak force, is all about, we first need to mention the strong nuclear force. The strong force ...

^{4}\textrm{He}\) When a radioactive atom emits an alpha particle the mass number decreases by four and the atomic number drops by two. Here is the equation for the alpha decay of radon-219 into ...